30 years of the Journal of Human Growth and Development: scientific communication in the several areas of knowledge
The year of 2020 has been a challenging year for the economy, politics, health, science, education and other sectors that are linked to the country’s growth and development.
For the Brazilian population, the 30 years of the Unified Health System stand out, which, as a result of social mobilization, is an example of a great successful experience of access to health care through a public system, which has come over the years seeking to achieve universalization, even with all the limitations and immense challenges.
In the last 30 years, there are also challenges related to health research, considering the use, the incorporation of new knowledge and the products generated by this research, which are important for the generation of scientific evidence used as a basis for decision making and definition of health policies and services.
These researches, in turn, have the means in scientific journals so that their results can be disseminated and recognized. In this context, the Journal of Human Growth and Development (JHGD), has been, since 1990, a journal that seeks in its editions to provide discussion of research, basic or applied, of themes that pervade human growth and development and that constitute itself as basis for decision-making in health, maximization of public policies and guidelines for health practices, whether focused on prevention, promotion, control, treatment and / or rehabilitation of health problems.
In these 30 years of JHGD while SUS also celebrates its 30th anniversary, it is essential to mention this, which is the largest public health system in the world and which has as one of its focuses, promoting the health of the population through its numerous programs of health, highlighting the health model of the Family Health Strategy(ESF, in Portuguese) whose focus is on the notion of Health Promotion.
Health promotion is considered as one of the strategies aimed at increasing the population’s capacity for understanding and co-participation in the health-disease-care process. In this perspective, in the organization of health services, it is necessary that health professionals promote expanded lines of care, with the inclusion of actions that address the determinants of the health-disease-care process, considering social, political and economic aspects loco-regional…
